Energy
  • usFILE PHOTO: A bulldozer moves coal at the Murray Energy Corporation port facility in Powhatan Point, Ohio

    Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States

    By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's effort to put coal miners back to work stumbled in most coal producing states last year, even as overall employment in the downtrodden sector grew...

  • The massive Big John dragline works to reshape the rocky landscape in some of the last sections to be mined for coal at the Hobet site in Boone County

    Why US Coal Producers Are Having a Very Good Year

    By Tom DiChristopher, CNBC

    U.S. coal exports are rising this year, giving the fossil-fuel friendly Trump administration reason to cheer, but analysts believe the good times won't last. The surge in exports doesn't herald a...

  • Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro waves during a pro-government rally with workers of state-run oil company PDVSA, in Barcelona

    The Crisis in Venezuela Could Send Oil Prices Soaring

    By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.com

    Venezuela’s deteriorating crisis is “going to be the biggest geopolitical story to watch in the oil markets," according to Helima Croft of RBC Capital Markets. The economic, political and security...

  • FILE PHOTO:  A sign is painted on a parking space for electric cars inside a car park in Hong Kong

    The Battery Problem That Could Slow the Electric Car Revolution

    By Zandi Shabalala, Reuters

    Producers of processed lithium - an essential element for batteries used in electric cars - are agreeing long-term contracts with their customers to fund the investments needed to address a looming...

  • A prototype of the Tesla Model 3 is on display in front of the factory during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker in Sparks, Nevada, U.S. July 26, 2016.  REUTERS/James Glover II

    The Great Battery Battle: Tesla Sparks an Arms Race in Energy Storage

    By Ryan Browne, CNBC

    Elon Musk's car company Tesla appears to be leading the "arms race" for lithium-ion batteries — for now. Musk recently announced plans to build the world's biggest lithium-ion battery storage project...

  • The company logo of Halliburton oilfield services corporate offices is seen in Houston, Texas April 6, 2012. REUTERS/Richard Carson

    Market share of a merged Baker Hughes-Halliburton

    By Terry Wade and Nadia Damouni, Reuters

    A combination would help the companies better cope with weak oil prices. Global crude oil prices have slipped from over $100 in June to less than $80 this week amid excess supply and tepid demand...

  • Pumpjacks taken out of production temporarily stand idle at a Hess site while new wells are fracked near Williston, North Dakota November 12, 2014.    REUTERS/Andrew Cullen

    U.S. fracking firms stay in top gear despite oil price slump

    By Edward McAllister, Reuters

    (Corrects Nov.7 story to fix spelling of a name in the last two paragraphs) NEW YORK (Reuters): Unfazed by slumping oil prices and battering in the stock market, firms that supply sand and guar gum...

  • Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri speaks during a news conference to announce its first quarter earnings in Espoo April 29, 2014. REUTERS/Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva

    Nokia says vanishing consumer brand may return

    By Eric Auchard, Reuters

    LONDON (Reuters) - Don't call it a comeback yet. But Nokia is thinking about how to revive its brand name in consumer markets just months after selling off its former flagship mobile phones business...

  • German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrives for a news conference with his French counterpart Minister Laurent Fabius (not pictured) in Berlin October 15, 2014. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

    German minister to pay first visit to Moscow since February

    By Alessandra Prentice and Natalia Zinets and Adrian Croft and Thomas Grove and Anton Zverev, Reuters

    Steinmeier's spokesman Martin Schaefer told a government news conference that the minister would spend the morning in Kiev before traveling on to Moscow. The visit comes amid rising violence in...

  • U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew attends a discussion about the 2016 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue and overall U.S.-China bilateral economic relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, June 5, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee

    Obama says position on Keystone XL pipeline has not changed

    By Reuters

    Speaking at a news conference in Yangon, Myanmar, alongside democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, Obama cited pending legal action in Nebraska and said it was hard to evaluate the pipeline proposal until...